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The Film Feed: Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl
With a title like “Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl” (they mean Peach Bottom), it would be easy to wipe this film to one side like a Rodríguez kids flick, but you would be doing yourself a huge...
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The Film Feed: Red Beard
Red Beard was the 16th and sadly last film that Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made together; an epic production that took two years and strained their lengthy working relationship to breaking...
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The Film Feed: Sansho Dayu
When most think of the “golden age” of Japanese cinema, the knee jerk reaction is to cite films by Kurosawa or Ozu (not to mention Ishiro Honda’s Gojira), leaving the works of Kenji Mizoguchi sadly...
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The Film Feed: Dreams
Although his later work is seen as a little self indulgent by many, there is no denying the charm and honesty that decorates Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, a collection of short movies based on the deepest...
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The Film Feed: Dead Sushi
Confidently nestled in the “so bad it’s good” category, Dead Sushi is an unashamedly silly affair, which splices Japanese comedy, the zombie genre and sushi, to make an unforgettably insane, and at...
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The Film Feed: Crows Zero
For many, the jump that director Takashi Miike made from excessively violent cult classics, to huge budget Japanese blockbusters, is a formidable and incomprehensible one. But perhaps his “gateway”...
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The Film Feed: 100 Yen The Japanese Arcade Experience
One of the countless subcultures in Japan, the arcade community is both loyal yet turbulent; one which ranges from casual gamers and “UFO Catchers” enthusiasts, to gamers so hardcore, they have managed...
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Director Profile: Seijin Suzuki
A man with a life-story as odd as the narratives he wove on screen, Seijin Suzuki was born in 1924 and still sporadically dips his toes into the creative pool of cinema even at the age of 90. Credited...
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The Film Feed: Branded To Kill
Whether you consider Film Noir a style, an approach or a genre in its own right is more a matter of opinion than cinematic history; but whatever it may be, many see Orson Welles’ 1958, A Touch of Evil,...
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